[kj] OT -- 9%... 10%...

[sade1]

I like the progression of Moe Barak's positions throughout this whole thing:

 - Go home(or else!)!  Go home now! (at beginning)
 - OK, I'll leave!, just give me 8 months! (til the Sept. elections)
 - I hereby proclaim to abdicate, ambiguously, forthwith!
                           ~~ signed, (still)thePresident of Egypt (couple of 
days ago)
 - Ok, I'm gonna go out of town for the weekend with the wife to go, um, "charm 
the sheik" at Sharm-
   el-Sheik, just forget about me for now; I'll be back in a few....
 -  Alright, if  I leave (big IF), I'll leave my Chief of Intelligence, Torture 
& Suppression in charge. You'll be safe 

   with him  (I was).  Be grateful.  
 - Alright, alright, I'm leaving. Peace out!

Pharaoh, hear thy People: go.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pEfVJ93Cwa8/TULShl_pZPI/AAAAAAAAIJw/OLTgACk43w8/s1600/Pharaoh+mubarak.jpg


 
 
Funny, I've been following Egypt, and the keep talking about all the 
unemployment there, and horrible conditions for the middle and working class. 
They've shown interviews
w/college educated professionals who've been out of work for years...You know 
what the unemployment rate is there?? TEN PERCENT!! And if they meanure it 
honestly, it's probably less
that that of the US which is really around 20% if you take into account the 
stuff Brendan talked about). Admitedly things are worse there in tems of 
wages, gov oppression, etc., but this all
shows that different countries are more alike than different. 
Another similarity: CNN's head foreign correspondant just said that police 
In Egypt randomly commit acts of violence against people, arrest them at will, 
don't tell family members of people imprisoned, and of
corse that the army has not for the most part not attacked the protesters or 
shot at their own people. Hmm, sounds like the way dark skinned people and 
immigrants are treated in a country I know...
 


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From: GREG SLAWSON <gregslawson at msn.com>
To: gathering <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Thu, February 10, 2011 8:36:24 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] OT -- 9%... 10%... -- correction


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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:23:18 -0800
From: saulomar1 at yahoo.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: [kj] OT -- 9%... 10%... -- correction


So here it is again from the horses' mouths.  At the highest level they are 
saying now that unemployment won't come down to a near(-but-still-high)-normal 
5% for another 10 years, with 6 years being the Optimists' view. And that's with 
Corporate America sitting on a liquid $2Trillion in cash = 50 million people 
working for a year. They'd rather buy back their own stock (to keep the gains 
and dividends in-house) than to put a commoner to work.
9% Unemployment Just Fine http://www.cnbc.com/id/41517149
And, 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_exclusive/20110209/pl_yblog_exclusive/why-is-the-jobless-rate-staying-so-high-and-what-can-be-done-about-it

 
10% of the land is The Hand 
that pulls the strings... 
to have, to own, to hold: 
   money, property, assets - before lives
 
Green gestures..an endless debate
Why? Just to justify, 
             jus-ti-justify..this 'Utopia':
                                                 "Money is our business
                                                   Cash is our business 
                                                    These derivatives is our 
business
                                                     Lies! are our business
                                                      Business is our 
Business!!"


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